donsutherland1 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Today, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declared that 2010 was tied for the warmest year on record. Excerpts from the WMO's press release follow: The year 2010 ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Data received by the WMO show no statistically significant difference between global temperatures in 2010, 2005 and 1998. In 2010, global average temperature was 0.53°C (0.95°F) above the 1961-90 mean. This value is 0.01°C (0.02°F) above the nominal temperature in 2005, and 0.02°C (0.05°F) above 1998. The difference between the three years is less than the margin of uncertainty (± 0.09°C or ± 0.16°F) in comparing the data. These statistics are based on data sets maintained by the UK Meteorological Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU), the U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The press release can be found at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_906_en.html A final assessment on 2010 will be released in March 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConvectiveSolutions Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Certainly wasn't for the Continental US.... Not even close! Source: NCDC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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